While Alexis Dean and her young daughter were enjoying the midway rides at the Spencerville Fair Saturday afternoon, her grandmother was recalling her childhood.

“I grew up in Spencerville,” said Nancy Dean.

“It was the best thing, couldn’t wait,” she added.

“This was our family tradition, the fair.”

She was thrilled to see the family’s enjoyment of the late-summer tradition extend to a fourth generation.

“It brings back a lot of memories,” she said.

The 162nd Spencerville Fair enjoyed perfect weather for the two biggest days of its four-day run.

“Today is a good day. It’s not a banner day but it’s a good day,” Tammy Ferguson, the marketing and promotions coordinator for the Spencerville Agricultural Society, said Saturday.

“We finally got a day with some good weather.”

Ferguson stressed she was pleased with the attendance.

The blue skies remained for the fair’s popular demolition derby on Sunday afternoon.

“The demolition derby, I was just told, was the best one in years,” Ferguson said Sunday afternoon, adding the crowd was bigger.

It was too early Sunday for specific numbers.

“It’s been a good fair this year.”

The weather, in particular, was a welcome change.

“For the last three years, we’ve had crappy weather,” said Ferguson. “We really deserved a good weekend.”

“We prayed and prayed and prayed for good weather and God finally answered us.”

The fair again featured a midway, horse, cattle and sheep shows, tractor pulls and helicopter rides, not to mention live entertainment.

New this year was WaterBark, a partnership between the President’s Choice SuperDogs and stunt divers from Milord Entertainment, who brought a circus element to a show that featured canine aquatic tricks.

Marine Crest, a native of Marseille, France, who moved to Quebec City to study circus performing, was one of the acrobats; she thrilled the audience with a trapeze act over the pool.

“I like having challenges,” Crest, 27, said in French.

“I like seeing stars in the eyes of the children and making the adults forget their problems.”

The show has been to Cape Cod, Syracuse and Spencerville, said fellow performer Félix DiPasquale, who has performed at the Spencerville Fair, with different shows, five or six times in the last 17 years.

In a French-language interview, DiPasquale said he appreciates working with the local fair’s volunteers.

“They’re here for the community; they really want it to work,” he said.

“People who have their hearts in the right place, it’s always fun to work with them.”

Kerri Bisaillon, of Sudbury, was down with her family for a funeral in Brockville and made the trip to Spencerville.

“We heard about the fair from a bunch of my cousins and we decided to come down and check out the fair for the first time,” she said.